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Cookware and bakeware is food preparation equipment, such as cooking pots, pans, baking sheets etc. Cookware is used on a stove or range cooktop, while bakeware is used in an oven. There is a great variety of cookware and bakeware in shape, material, and inside surface. Some pots and their lids have handles or knobs made of low thermal conductance materials such as bakelite, plastic or wood, which make them easy to pick up without oven gloves.
A good cooking pot design has an “overcook edge” which is what the lid lies on. 4th century BC, exhibited in the Ancient Agora Museum in Athens, housed in the Stoa of Attalus. The history of cooking vessels before the development of pottery is minimal due to the limited archaeological evidence. The pottery may have been used as cookware, manufactured by hunter-gatherers.